Jimmy Higgins
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Thankfully the cryptic announcement of something coming was from last week, because the announcement today wasn't exactly the most mind blowing outcome.
Three quarters of Porcupine Tree is back (Colin Edwin isn't part of this, at least not the recording of it). And they are releasing a new album... consisting of music concepts put to digital around the time of The Incident release.
I wasn't certain what to think of it. Personally, I was fine with Porcupine Tree being finished. I have no idea what a new Porcupine Tree album would even sound like. Their music continued to change and adapt from spacey long track prog (The Sky Moves Sideways) to shorter cuts (Stupid Dreams) to a heavier sound and returning to longer tracks (Fear of a Blank Planet). It is a 'you can't go back home' sort of feel for me. Steven Wilson was doing his own stuff and we moved into the future.
But now they are back together. Most of them, with an album consisting of stuff that originated around The Incident. My one question will be collaboration. The Incident to me was much more like Wilson's first solo album with the rest of PT being session musicians than a PT album. And I think it suffered from that. The Incident wasn't bad, but it wasn't Fear of a Blank Planet either, high bars. Wilson is great, but he is better with a great team around him as we saw with his trio of relentlessly awesome solo albums (Grace, Raven, and HCE). The description on the website insists that the DNA exists, so if we have a trio contributing, then I look more forward to its release.
Three quarters of Porcupine Tree is back (Colin Edwin isn't part of this, at least not the recording of it). And they are releasing a new album... consisting of music concepts put to digital around the time of The Incident release.
I wasn't certain what to think of it. Personally, I was fine with Porcupine Tree being finished. I have no idea what a new Porcupine Tree album would even sound like. Their music continued to change and adapt from spacey long track prog (The Sky Moves Sideways) to shorter cuts (Stupid Dreams) to a heavier sound and returning to longer tracks (Fear of a Blank Planet). It is a 'you can't go back home' sort of feel for me. Steven Wilson was doing his own stuff and we moved into the future.
But now they are back together. Most of them, with an album consisting of stuff that originated around The Incident. My one question will be collaboration. The Incident to me was much more like Wilson's first solo album with the rest of PT being session musicians than a PT album. And I think it suffered from that. The Incident wasn't bad, but it wasn't Fear of a Blank Planet either, high bars. Wilson is great, but he is better with a great team around him as we saw with his trio of relentlessly awesome solo albums (Grace, Raven, and HCE). The description on the website insists that the DNA exists, so if we have a trio contributing, then I look more forward to its release.